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Quote by: Anmon  I disagree, keeping a monster like this alive is a
greater moral threat to society.
'Look we care for the monster, even though he tortured
and raped kids right under our noses for twenty five
years, we love him so much we'll keep him comfy
for the rest of his life at taxpayers expense, just
so people wont say we stooped in some way to
his level.' |
I didn't say you have to love this person, nor did I claim he posed no threat to anybody. But if we truly are morally upright people, we'll consider what kind of message shooting people sends. Is it only a positive message? Certainly not. That's my basic point. Torturing or killing this man isn't going to set society right. If people abided by straight standards of revenge (like you're advocating), retaliatory violence would be endless, encompassing all. If you look at the micro-scale, you can find examples like this. On the macro-scale you can see examples such as Vietnam under French
colonial rule.
As we said just before, killing someone is not a small act, and this makes general moral considerations all the more practical. And it may be practical to keep such people alive anyway, indeed to study why they behave a certain way. This might be done "at taxpayers' expense" only because we have taxes.
Grandpa h.